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Snowdonia and North Wales

Although Snowdonia is seen as the most wonderful landscape in North Wales there are many others including Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty such as the Llyn Peninsula with some of the best beaches Wales has to offer, the Isle of Anglesey with its 125 miles of wonderfully scenic coastal path encircling the whole island whilst in the east there's the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley, the scenic gateway to the region.

St Cwyfan's Church is known as the Church in the Sea. It is to be found on a small tidal island called Cribinau located off the west coast of Anglesey and close to the village of Aberffraw. Also known as Llangwyfan the church can be reached on foot at low tide. Old maps show the church standing on the mainland of Anglesey but erosion by the sea of the boulder clay cliffs has since separated the church from the mainland. The original site or "Llan" of Cwyfans would have been founded in the 7th Century and the building would have been of wattle and daub construction. The present building is said to date back to the 12th or 13th Century with the building undergoing many restorations. Some Norman masonry remains in the South wall, however, the main body is the 14th Century. The arched, braced roof timbers are partly 16th century. By the 19th Century, the building was a roofless ruin but money was raised to repair the building and to build the massive sea defence walls that give the island it's distinctive shape.